The Review of Economic Performance and Social Progress

by Banting, Keith; Sharpe, Andrew; St-Hilaire, France

• ISBN13: 9780886451905
• ISBN10: 0886451906
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ Pr

Summary

This new series will provide in-depth examinations of specific aspects of our economic performance and social progress, often using new data sets, and analyze the two-way linkages and interaction between economic performance and social progress

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	xi
Foreword	xiii
Hugh Segal
Andrew Sharpe
The Longest Decade: Introduction and Overview	1	(22)
Keith Banting
Andrew Sharpe
France St-Hilaire
Economic Performance and Social Progress: Concepts, Measurement and Linkages
Needs and Wants: What is Social Progress and How should It Be Measured?	23	(20)
Lars Osberg
Social Capital, the Economy and Well-Being	43	(20)
John F. Helliwell
Public Views of Economic Performance and Social Progress
The Economy Through a Public Lens: Shifting Canadian Views of the Economy	63	(26)
Frank L. Graves
Public Policy, Economic Performance and Social Progress
Monetary Policy and the Economic Well-Being of Canadians	89	(24)
Paul Jenkins
Brian O'Reilly
Interest Rates, Unemployment and Inflation: The Canadian Experience in the 1990s	113	(18)
Pierre Fortin
Deficit Elimination, Economic Performance and Social Progress in Canada in the 1990s	131	(10)
Don Drummond
The Economic and Social Consequences of Fiscal Retrenchment in Canada in the 1990s	141	(20)
Jim Stanford
Trade Liberalization and Inequality in Canada in the 1990s	161	(22)
Daniel Schwanen
Relentless Incrementalism: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Canadian Income Security Policy	183	(50)
Ken Battle
The Outcomes: Canada's Economic, Social and Environmental Record
Trends in Economic Well-Being in Canada in the 1990s	233	(14)
Lars Osberg
Andrew Sharpe
Distributional Outcomes in Canada in the 1990s	247	(26)
Andrew Heisz
Andrew Jackson
Garnett Picot
Are the Kids All Right? Intergenerational Mobility and Child Well-Being in Canada	273	(20)
Miles Corak
Economic Growth and Environmental Degradation in Canada	293	(18)
Kathleen Day
R. Quentin Grafton
Notes on Contributors	311